"R.I.P." [ft. 2 Chainz]

self-released

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This year, the young West Coast producer DJ Mustard made noise with music that he's dubbed "Ratchet", a sound that fuses Los Angeles' jerk movement with San Francisco's hyphy minimalism. Having produced for young Los Angeles rappers for the last few years, it was his hits with Tyga ("Rack City") and 2 Chainz ("I'm Different") that pushed him into the rap mainstream.

Mustard also produced Young Jeezy's "R.I.P.", from the just-released mixtape It's Tha World.Jeezy, who rarely steps outside of his larger-than-life southern rap beats, sounds great hopping all over this sparse track-- and since it would not be a potential rap hit in 2012 without a 2 Chainz verse, here he ends with amusing wildlife imagery: "I stack my money so tall/ that you might need a giraffe/ if you counting this cash".